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Since today, May 19th, at 5:46 a.m. EDT, AMS-02 is safely on the ISS. Four days after the Endeavour launch, that took place on Monday May 16th at 8:56 a.m. EDT, the experiment has been installed on the ISS through a tricky operation and then activated. AMS-02 was first activated on FD1 (Flight Day One) a few hours after the launch, when data transmission was verified and the first temperature measures were taken, confirming the expected temperature at various location

Tomorrow at 8:56 a.m. EDT shuttle Endeavour will be finally launched to the ISS. AMS-02 team is really excited and concentrated at the same time: at JSC people are ready at the POCC (Payload Operation Control Center), hosted inside the BFCR (Blue Flight Control Room) at the MCC-H (Mission Control Center – Houston), from where they will control AMS-02 first operations. Three hours after the launch AMS-02 thermal control system will indeed be activated and data transmission checked; power will

STS-134 launch has been shifted again to a new “no earlier than” date: May 16th at 8:56 a.m. EDT. The window will be open till May 20th; then in order to avoid overlaps with undocking Russian Soyuz TMA-20, another launch opportunity will follow from May 22 to May 26. At JSC, STS-134 crew is ready to come back at KSC, where engineers and technicians are working hard to solve all issues at the orbiter’s Auxiliary Power Unit that caused the

After NASA technicians found the cause of Auxiliary Power Unit thermal issue that scrubbed the 29 April launch and decided to remove and replace an entire avionics box, STS-134 launch has been delayed to not earlier than Sunday, May 8th at 12:09 p.m. EDT: AMS-02 has to wait at least one week to begin its travel to the ISS. In the meanwhile at Houston people from the Collaboration, waiting to start their scheduled 24 hours control shifts are working on

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) is a state-of-the-art particle physics detector designed to operate as an external module on the International Space Station. It will use the unique environment of space to study the universe and its origin by searching for antimatter, dark matter while performing precision measurements of cosmic rays composition and flux. The AMS-02 observations will help answer fundamental questions, such as "What makes up the universe's invisible mass?" or "What happened to the primordial antimatter?"